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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:52:39 +0100
From:      tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: boot errors since upgrading to 12-current
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On 15/08/2018 13:20, tech-lists wrote:
> On 15/08/2018 12:49, Kyle Evans wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 6:22 AM, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:
>>> Hello Toomas,
>>>
>>> On 15/08/2018 07:31, Toomas Soome wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well that does explain the problem, if you look on the sizes 
>>>> reported… so
>>>> your BIOS is reporting wrong sizes, is unable to access whole 4TB 
>>>> space and
>>>> the zfs reader is not getting the correct data from the disks
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you know why this was not happening on 11-stable but is happening on
>>> 12-current?
>>>
>>> The BIOS has not been modified since the machine was bought back in 
>>> 2014.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps r335245, which fixed a logical error and completely changed
>> the calculations for this stuff and possibly sent you on dramatically
>> different path. There's not too many commits to this area that haven't
>> yet landed back in stable/11, fortunately.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kyle Evans
>>
> 
> Thank you Toomas and Kyle for the clarifications.
> 

addendum to this - installed new world and kernel r337835 and the zfs 
warning at boot seems to have disappeared. Something else odd has 
started happening though, will make a new email for it - usb keyboard no 
longer functioning at the beastie menu, but functions when boot completes.

-- 
J.



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